Job 35

¹ Moreover Elihu answered and said, ² Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than *God's? ³ For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? ⁴ I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. ⁵ Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. ⁶ If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? ⁷ If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand? ⁸ Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art , and thy righteousness a son of man.

⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: ¹⁰ But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, ¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? ¹² There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely *God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴ Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. ¹⁵ But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy? ¹⁶ For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.